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You may wonder why the lists at Google Groups use an underscore, while the
lists @vim.org use a dash. This is for historical reasons. The lists were
first created on our own server, using dashes. When the server died we moved
them to Google Groups. Unfortunately, some of the names were not available
there. We used an underscore for all the lists, so that at least it is
consistent.

Note that the aliases @vim.org support both a dash and an underscore, but if
you send something to @googlegroups.com you need to use an underscore.